Radio Quotes - Page 17

• I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

  David Sedaris

  Ideas, Firsts, Reactions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My goals were small. My goal was to become a big enough stand-up that I wouldn't have to do radio. I could sell out a club, which is like 300 seats. If I got big enough, I could sell before I got there, and I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning to do radio. That was pretty much the dream. I had no idea I'd be playing Madison Square Garden or anything.

  Chris Rock

  Dream, Morning, Garden

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.

  Bill Burr

  Past, Flying, Want

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Smell, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Rooms, Hips

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• The music on the radio is fine, it's just not my type of music. You don't play an instrument, and you don't need to be able to sing. You just need to be able to make a beat and use auto-tune. It's crazy!

  Elizabeth Gillies

  Crazy, Play, Auto Tune

  Source: collider.com

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• I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  Mariah Carey

  Moving, Records, Want

  "Q&A With Mariah Carey : 'my Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

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• Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Dark, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

  Vince Staples

  Lying, Writing, Mad

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust.  Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black.  The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.  The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.'  The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Memories, Father, White

  "Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

  Rudy Vallee

  Pits, Orchestra, Corporations

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• We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

  Vangelis

  Dark, Musical, Age

  "My Greek Odyssey with Alexander" by Peter Culshaw, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 06, 2005.

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• Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

  David Shuster

  Conservative, Opinion, Progressive

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Ham, Given

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• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Writing, Sky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

  John Avlon

  Media, Talking, Play

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

  Ted Lyons

  Home, Tired, Two

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

  Art Alexakis

  Song, People, Friendly

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• I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

  Danny Wallace

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

  Elon Musk

  Squares, Utah, Energy

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• To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.

  Michael Parenti

  Media, Political, Complaining

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.98, City Lights Books

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